U+691C "検" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
検
U+691C "検" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) also used in Japanese (Kanji) and occasionally in Korean (Hanja), fundamentally meaning "to examine," "to inspect," or "to check." It is a simplified form of the traditional character 檢, composed of the wood radical 木 on the left, suggesting a connection to wooden slips or records, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its sound (often pronounced as "ken" in Japanese and "jiǎn" in Mandarin Chinese). This character is commonly found in contexts involving investigation, verification, and quality control, such as in the words 検討 (kentō, meaning examination or discussion) and 検査 (kensa, meaning inspection or test).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+691C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 検 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 検 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA4 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x691C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000691C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u691c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-3C44 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3C44 |
| kCangjie | XDOMO |
| kCantonese | gim2 |
| kDefinition | check; examine |
| kEACC | 4B4561 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4893.6 |
| kHanYu | 21235.031 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21235.031 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0537.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3D3C |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3821 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3B5B |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3C44 |
| kJapanese | ケン しらべる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIRABERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 2401 |
| kKangXi | 0537.131 |
| kKorean | KEM |
| kMandarin | jiǎn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014138 |
| kMorohashi | 15065' |
| kNelson | 2304 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1877+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |